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Barry H. Landau, who was Assistant Chief of Protocol in the Ford White House, is a longtime student and historian of the Presidency who, in the last half-century, has met almost every pet kept at the White House. In this Associated Press article (from the Fort Collins...

  20 January 1969: RN and PN in the Inaugural Parade after the swearing in at the Capitol.  H. R. Haldeman noted in his Diary: "Expression on his face was unforgettable, this was his time!  He had arrived, he was in full command, someone said he felt he saw rays...

The headline in the Daily Telegraph was intriguing --- "Are UFO's real?  Famous people who believed" --- and the sub-head was promising --- The former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell has claimed that aliens exist and their visits are being covered up by the United...

CNN has finally caught up with Carol D. Leonnig's story in Sunday's WaPo about the egregious porkfest that is the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video"...

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"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."

Rick Perlstein's Nixonland came out in paperback last week, a month after his study of Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign, Before The Storm, was reissued by Nation Books. And, as it happens, the Claremont Institute's website has just put up the review of Nixonland by...

Roger Morris, who was a National Security Council staffer in 1969 and 1970, and who later published a massive study of Richard Nixon's career up to 1952, made two more contributions this week to "100 Days," the group blog in which historians compare events that took...

When Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as the United Kingdom's Prime Minister just a few years ago, he enjoyed an somewhat extended honeymoon with the British press and public. There was some degree of sympathy for the Scottish politician because it was well-known why...

This November, Michael Sheen, whose performance as David Frost in Frost/Nixon impressed critics and audiences both onstage and on film, will undertake a somewhat different part - the leader of the Volturi vampire clan in New Moon, the sequel to the massive box-office...